Friday, April 17, 2009

Where were you?

Dear Dhoni,

You missed the Padma Shri awards given by the president. Where were you? If the award meant anything, short of an emergency, you should have made it -- if not you should have declined it a long time ago, so that another sportsman/woman should have been awarded it. Surely there needs to be a public word on why you did not make it? I did not see you in the IPL parade either (though I took only a passing glance at it on TV). Hope you were there...

You have been privileged to recieve so less criticism. It will take only a few defeats after which you will be in the same boat as Ganguly or Dravid.

PS: To the sports ministry and BCCI -- don't you check beforehand if your "wards" intend to attend or persuade them to do so?

4 comments:

straight point said...

we were counting cash before your call came in...ahhh...now we have to count again...DND...

-dhoni & bhaji

rs said...

@sp :)

I don't think Bhaji should have even been awarded Padma shri the same year he slapped someone.

Viswanathan said...

RS,

I believe they left for SA on the day of the award ceremony.

Actually you cannot blame them as it is Modi who should have taken the awards into account before scheduling the IPL. (Remember IPL was rescheduled a few times) :)

rs said...

ott: The circulars and criminal cases for this -- I can't believe. But MSD should have managed this better -- and seriously whoever recommended them (the sports ministry or the BCCI could have done better job to check before hand if they intended to attend or spin a story accordingly).

but definitely we can blame Modi :)I think that will be a good use of the 30 mins of strategy breaks in today's 2 matches! BTW is it 7.5 mins per innings?